Originally Posted by Raven Knight
I fell asleep with my light / sound machine on. My first goal was to heal my friend Allison who says she is coming down with the flu. I fell asleep and focused on getting to the biodome on the moon. My first stop was to pick up Nomad because he said he would help with the healing. I thought Basara might also be there. I fell asleep and found myself in the biodome in a lucid dream…
I was in the biodome. I was standing next to a pond. I looked down into the water and saw an array of colorful fish swimming about down there. I looked around at the beautiful scenery. A portal opened and Basara came through. He came over to me and gave me a hug. He asked if I was ready. I said Nomad had told me he would be coming. Basara said that was fine. He looked around at the scenery a bit while we waited. I wondered where Nomad was. Just shortly after I had that thought a portal opened and Nomad came through it. I said hello to Nomad. There was a woman with him. She had on a pretty green dress and had long brown pigtails. She had a cute smile. I said hello to Pixi. Basara came over to us. I said I would open a portal now. I used Through the Never to open a portal to find Allison. A portal opened and the four of us went through it.
On the other side we were in Allison's apartment. Allison was on the couch sleeping. We started the music. I was using Voices from the Macross Plus soundtrack as Basara and Nomad were playing along with it. Golden energy formed and was flowing through Allison. We did two repetitions of the song. As it ended Allison seemed to be waking up.
"Jen, honey," Allison said groggily, "Turn the music down… I'm trying to sleep."
"You are sleeping," I told Allison, "This is a dream."
"A what?" Allison asked as she sat up and looked at me. She looked at me, then at Nomad, then at Pixi, then at Basara. "Oh, hi everyone. I don't think we'll be going out today. I feel like shit. I'm going to be sleeping most of the day, so go on without me."
Pixi said she didn't think Allison was fully lucid. She said some lucidi-tea was in order.
"Lucidity?" Allison questioned.
"No," Pixi said, "Lucidi-TEA. Here. Have a cup of tea."
Pixi produced a tea pot and poured four cups. She passed it around to all of us. Allison took a cup of the tea and sipped it. She said it was actually pretty good. I took a sip. It was sweet. It was good. Everything around me seemed to take on a surreal quality of clarity. It felt like I must be on some kind of drug. Allison didn't seem to notice. She turned on her XBox 360. She was playing DDO (Dungeons and Dragons Online) on her XBox. That was not normal. I knew that is a game only for the PC… She had a sorceress character and was fighting in a dungeon. There were a lot of enemies around. She was using a combination of magic and a nasty-cool looking sword. She hacked through numerous enemies and into a room with a boss. The boss was a dragon. The dragon bit her character in half and she was dead.
"Fuck!" Allison cursed as she went back to a save point, "Why won't that guy die? Where are those jerks I helped on their quests? Why the fuck won't they back me up on this one?"
"They can't get online to DDO in your dream," I said to Allison, "This is a dream, not an MMORPG."
Allison's character transformed into a werewolf now. I thought that was cool. I wondered if transformations are possible in the real life version of DDO. I've never heard of that. She tore through the enemies in the first room even faster before getting into the room with the boss. Her werewolf grew to match the size of the dragon boss. She engaged the dragon in battle only to have a huge dragon talon impale her character through the chest and then the dragon tossed her dead character aside.
"Fuck!" Allison cursed again, "Forget that fucker! I've had enough." She put down the controller.
"Maybe if this level exists IRL," I said, "we can go through the quest together. Maybe two of us can do it."
"Maybe," Allison said, "Too bad you forgot your laptop."
"Do you want to go do something?" I asked, "Maybe a Star Gate world? Do you feel up to it?"
"Not today," Allison said, "I'm going back to bed. Just lock the door on your way out." She headed back into her bedroom.
Nomad said he was going back to his temple. He said he was going to meet with a woman. He only referred to her as M. I told him I was going to find somewhere that I could help someone. He asked where. I said I didn't know for sure. Maybe Assassin's Creed, maybe Star Trek, I wasn't really sure what would happen. He said he'd like to check that out but he really wanted to contact M. A portal opened and he went through it. I was thinking about opening a portal when everything around me faded to black and I woke.
From Nomad's DJ, transcribed by Raven Knight:
I stood up in my bed and stretched, a cheesy lion man. I had on plastic red cape, plastic red and gold scepter, and a plastic gold crown with red velvet in it. I hear music out on the street. I floated through the wall and I saw my space ship pulsing and vibrating. I changed into a jaguar and I floated into my space ship through the silver wall and sat in the pilot seat. DJ Hope was spinning.
She said, "Wus up?" A silvery woman behind two turntables. She is also the AI of my space ship.
A wormhole was swirling before us. We went into it. We landed on the landing pad at the top of the Temple of Nothing. I stepped out of my space ship onto floating stairs and went into my temple.
"Wus up, yo?" said Sarnox, as a wraith druid. He was acting like a cheesy wanna-be gangster. He said, "Yo… check it! I been, like, scrambling shit. It's crazy shit, man, crazy shit! Check it out! Watch this!" We walked over to the water basin and he waved his hands over the water. A woman's face appeared. It was Charlotte.
"Hi, Nomad," Charlotte said, "I just wanted to tell you that you should see the girl we've been talking about on Thursday. Ok? Bye!"
I walked to the mirror. I wanted to talk to the girl but I realized that I had other things to do first so I changed into my sorcerer form. A lion man wearing purple and black cape, crown, holding a black staff. I waved my staff in front of the mirror and it rippled. I saw into SilverWolf's cottage. She looked like a little witch in a witch had and a big dress. It looked like she was looking at a recipe and mixing some ingredients together. Pixie was in front of the mirror. She looked like a pink glowing person and a woman in a short green velvet dress at the same time. She had short brown hair in a pixi cut. And she had long legs, pale skin, and lavender fingernail polish.
"Hello, Nomad," Pixie said, speaking fast, "I'm kinda busy right now. Hi! How's it going? What's going on? What you doing? What's the plan?"
I said, "Lucidi-tea"
"Yeah," Pixie said, "It's good that you have that."
I said, "No. I wanted to get some lucidi-TEA."
"Oh, ok," Pixie said, "I'll just make a pot and then we'll have some lucidi-tea together!"
"No," I said, "Actually it's for Allison."
"Cool," she said, "I'm going to make some up right now."
I saw her make some tea magically in a tea pitcher. She added ginger, lemon grass, and honey. She had the tea pot in her hand but then it disappeared.
"I just put that into another dimension. I don't want to carry it around," Pixie said, "So what are we doing can I come with you? Where are you going?"
I said, "Yeah. Come with us. Sure."
"Ok," she said. She pushed her way through the mirror. I grabbed her hand and pulled her through into the temple. And then she kissed me. I was taken aback. I stood there and then I said, "Ok…" I was my physical self.
"This isn't right," I said.
"Don't worry about it," she said and she slapped my butt.
"We're supposed to see Allison… cause she's sick and we're going to help her," I said.
"I know," Pixie said.
I waved my black scepter over the mirror and it rippled. Raven was looking through at me.
"Hi, Nomad," Raven said, "You have Pixie with you!"
"She wanted to come with us," I said.
I heard Sarnox laughing in the background. Pixie and I stepped through the mirror into the biodome.
"Ok. Basara is coming with us," Raven said. We were standing by a Koi pond. She created a portal by the waterfall going into the Koi pond. We stepped through. Pixie, Basara, and I were flying through the wormhole on silvery discs while Raven was flying like a super hero with a serious look on her face. She didn't seem to notice we were flying through the wormhole. I body-surfed next to her.
"Hey, Raven," I said, "We're in a wormhole!"
"I know," she snapped, "I'm concentrating."
I said, "Oh. Sorry."
We landed in Allison's apartment. Allison was on the couch in the living room. She had some water and stuff for sick people. Wash cloth and kleenex and stuff. She was mumbling something. I saw hypnogogic hallucinations over her head.
"Should I wake her up?" Raven asked, "Or should we just… what should we do?"
"Well, she's sleeping," I said, "Why don't we just start playing healing music?"
"That's a good idea," Raven said.
I played my didgeridoo while Raven and Basara were singing. Allison sat up. "What? What are you… Hi, Raven. I feel like shit. I'm thirsty."
"This is a dream," Raven said, "And we were just going to help you cause you're sick. Some healing."
"I don't know if it'll work, but you can try it," Allison said, "I'm going back to sleep."
Allison lied back down and we played the music very softly. Golden energy came out of us. I saw beads of sweat on her forehead. I think she got a fever and the fever broke during the night. Allison stretched and got up again. She walked away to the kitchen and then came back and started playing XBox.
"Argh! I hate this level," Allison said, "How am I supposed to beat it?"
"It doesn't matter," Raven said, "Cause this is a dream."
Allison said, "I know. Hey, Nomad. Who are those other people?"
I said, "This is Basara."
"I knew that," Allison said with a yawn.
"Hey, let's have some tea," I said to Allison.
"If it will help me feel better," Allison said.
"It's lucidi-tea," I said.
"Oh, yeah," Allison said, "You're silly."
"Yeah," I said, "This is a dream."
"Stop saying that," Allison said, "I'm trying to figure out… FUCK! I died again. Oh, well. Fuck it. I don't want to play this game"
Pixie poured tea and set it on an invisible platter and then passed it around to us. Allison took a sip.
"Mmm," she said, "Minty. I like minty."
"No," Pixie said, "It's not min-tea, lucidi-tea!"
"Why do you guys keep talking about lucidity?" Allison asked.
"Because this is a dream," Raven said, "And we want to maybe have a dream adventure. If you're sick, that's ok. You can go back to sleep. Even though you're already asleep…"
"Yeah," Allison said, "I'm sorry, guys. I don't mean to be rude, but I have to kick you guys out. I have to go back to bed. I know I invited you but I shouldn't have. It's just fucking work… fucking school… all this shit, all this stress! Argh!"
"Ok," Raven said, "Bye"
"Bye, guys," Allison said.
I saw the hypnogogic hallucinations over Allison's head again like little gnomes dancing around. Raven created a portal and we went back to the moon.
"That was kind of funny," I said.
"The lucidi-tea didn't work," Raven said.
"It's for lucidity," Pixie said, "not to make sick people feel better."
"I want to talk to that girl from before," I said, "So I'm going back to my temple."
"Well, I'm going to go on an adventure," Raven said, "Maybe Assassin's Creed or something…"
"Cool," I said, "Well… shit! I have to do this."
"Ok," Raven said, "Bye."
Basara gave me a nod as me and Pixie went through the mirror.
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